Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-06-15/Discussion report

The following is a brief overview of discussions taking place on the English Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

Policy

 * Request for comment: Paid editing: How should paid editing be handled? Is it perfectly allowed? Or is it a blockable action? Something in the middle? (See related story)
 * Request for comment: Notability and fiction: How should notability work with regards to fiction? Numerous possible proposals have been put forth.

Style

 * Request for comment: Should the relatively new template, italictitle, be used to italicize names? If so, what articles should it be used for?
 * Discussion: Should guidelines be adopted for what order talk page templates should be sorted in? There is a draft of the proposed guideline.
 * Request for comment: Should a bot "fix" section levels when they are skipped (e.g., changing a level 2 header followed by a level 4 header to being a level 2 header followed by a level 3 header). Currently 14 supporters and 5 opposers.

Technical

 * Discussion: Should the section [edit] links be moved next to the header name? A working sample is available for live testing. Current discussion is leaning towards moving the link.
 * Discussion: Should the time since an article was last edited be displayed on the page? If so, should it replace or be in addition to the current "last edited at" information in article footers? Current discussion shows a consensus for displaying it.

Open bot requests for approval
This is a list of current bot requests for approval, with brief descriptions of the proposed tasks. See this week's technology report for information on recently-approved bots.


 * Coreva-Bot 2: To add maintenance tags to articles.
 * CSDCheckBot: To notify users who tagged an article for speedy deletion if that article was not deleted or deleted under a different criteria from what they selected.
 * Erik9bot 9: To tag articles with unreferenced if it can't find any evidence of references.
 * Erwin85Bot 8: To notify major article contributors when an article is nominated for deletion.
 * Kwjbot 3: To fix double redirects.
 * Mr.Z-bot 7: To report certain abuse filter violations to administrator intervention against vandalism
 * NKbot 2: To delete pages in Category:Temporary Wikipedian userpages.
 * NNBot II: To enforce rules regarding the removal of speedy deletion templates.
 * OgreBot: To update sports scores on a regular basis.
 * Polbot 13: To add italictitle to articles with species or genera as article names.
 * SPCUClerkbot 3: To modify all existing checkuser/sockpuppet related templates to one single template: sockpuppet with correctly named parameters.
 * Thehelpfulbot 9: To recategorize pages when a category is "moved".
 * UnitBot: To fix articles that describe unit conversion to "a ridiculous degree of precision"

Other

 * Discussion: Are administrator candidates being asked too many questions?

Open requests for adminship
The following requests for adminship are currently open:
 * Ched Davis: 72 support, 5 oppose, 3 neutral. Ends 23:12, 18 June 2009.
 * Enigmaman 3: 140 support, 6 oppose, 5 neutral. Ends 15:06, 15 June 2009.
 * Kingpin13: 31 support, 20 oppose, 7 neutral. Ends 8:53, 18 June 2009.
 * Mazca: 69 support, 3 oppose, 2 neutral. Ends 16:50, 18 June 2009.